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Distance: 81.97 km Ride time: 5.42.12 Average: 14.37 km/h Max speed: 54.36 km/h Total: 32531 km It’s nice to have a goal for the day. Today mine was clear enough – cycle to Colombia! I country I have been looking much forward to visit for a long time. It had been raining during the night [ Read More ]

Distance: 117.87 km Ride time: 6.34.06 Average: 17.94 km/h Max speed: 56.35 km/h Total: 32449 km Usually the mornings are clear in this part of Ecuador but today the low clouds were hanging over the mountains right from the beginning of the day. The landscape had a melancholic feeling to it which I kind of [ Read More ]

Distance: 93.22 km Ride time: 6.17.19 Average: 14.82 km/h Max speed: 52.18 km/h Total: 32331 km The rest day in Quito had been nice and needed, but something inside me wanted to go to Colombia. I was on the bike early once again. Leaving Quito is a good example that such a thing as a [ Read More ]

I liked Quito a whole lot. The old city center seems less polished and more authentic than other old towns I have visited lately. The whole setting of this capital city (the highest in the world) among the green mountains is also spectacular in itself. After the hard cycling through the mountains of Ecuador I [ Read More ]

Distance: 138.99 km Ride time: 7.57.34 Average: 17.46 km/h Max speed: 51.68 km/h Total: 32238 km I was on the bike early as I wanted to try to make it to Quito today. Whether I would make it depended on the amount of climbing on the way… The highway towards Quito was busy but what [ Read More ]

Distance: 56.27 km Ride time: 5.17.03 Average: 10.64 km/h Max speed: 55.34 km/h Total: 32053 km I was on the bike early as I knew there would be more climbing on the program today. I still haven’t managed to get hold of a map with altitudes marked, so exactly how much I needed to climb [ Read More ]

Distance: 53.87 km Ride time: 4.25.53 Average: 12.15 km/h Max speed: 53.21 km/h Total: 31996 km I would soon learn how the weather works in the mountains of Ecuador; the days start sunny and clear, and then it gets more and more cloudy and rainy as the day progresses. Hence, the morning is the time [ Read More ]

Distance: 69.14 km Ride time: 5.52.34 Average: 11.76 km/h Max speed: 27.18 km/h Total: 31942 km The easy days of cycling were over as I was heading straight for the Andes once again. The majestic mountain range has now been my trusty companion for a whole year – and what a companion! Normally I don’t [ Read More ]